Crinkled and coffee-stained but full of heartfelt words, this is the 70-year-old love letter that has captured the imagination of a 22-year-old supermarket worker after she found it languishing in the lost and found bin.

Stacie Adamson, 22, was working at the Asda superstore in Leigh, Greater Manchester, when she found the moving letter from a Second World War hero's sweetheart.

Date-stamped 1945, the letter was written by Dorothy to Harry and was formally addressed LAC H Hughes, 13 MSU (Torps), Royal Air Force, Ceylon Air Forces.

With moving words, Dorothy describes life back home in New Moston, Manchester, and talks of her plans to marry her soldier when he returns from serving in the war.

Miss Adamson, who was not even born when the letter was written, has now made it her mission to track down Dorothy, Harry or their relatives. So far she has discovered video footage of Harry in the 'Calling Blighty' films created during the war.

Stacie Adamson, 22 (pictured), was working at the superstore in Leigh, Greater Manchester, when she found the moving letter from a Second World War hero's sweetheart in lost property

Stacie Adamson, 22, was working in lost property at Asda in Leigh, Greater Manchester, when she found the 70-year-old letter addressed to LAC H Hughes, 13 MSU (Torps), Royal Air Force

It was written by a woman named Dorothy and was sent to her sweetheart Harry (pictured while serving in the Second World War in archive footage from the 'Calling Blighty' website

She said: 'I was sorting through all the letters which we shred when I found this one and noticed the stamp.

'I saw it was from the war and saved it from being shredded. I so want to return it to its owner. Whoever it is has been walking around with all these years.'

Miss Adamson, who lives in Leigh with her parents, Googled the information on the letter and found a video of Harry in the 'Calling Blighty' films.